Exam on Noun and Number

1. ‘After lunch we went on a leisurely stroll’. Here “Leisurely” is a/an: [49th BCS]

(a) adverb 
(b) adjective
 (c) noun 
(d) conjunction

2. ‘The river flows past the village.’ Here ‘past’ is a/an-

A. noun 
 B. verb 
 C. adverb
  D. preposition

3. He has done no wrong. The underlined word is a/an___.

A. pronoun
B. adverb
C. adjective
D. noun

4. Fill in the blank: I have ____ friends than you.

A. fewer
B. much
C. less
D. fewest

5. Hasan has read most of the ____ of Shakespeare.

A. Poem
B. Play
C. Drama
D. Works

6. All the four pens are missing. Here ‘all the four’ is____.

A. Noun, adjective
B. Adjective
C. Participle phrase
D. Determiners

7. Few men are free from faults. Here ‘few’ means -----.

a. some
b. not much
c. hardly any
d. none

8. Which underlined word is a noun?

a. That is the last of the matter
b. This is the last bus
c. He came last in the race
d. This lesson will not last long.

9. Which underlined word is an adverb?

a. This house is fine
b. The shirt suits me fine.
c. The bottle has to be fine
d. He had to pay a fine.

10. They while away their evenings with books and games. Here ‘while’ is a/an___.

a. verb
b. adverb
c. noun
d. conjunction

11. Let us move on. Here ‘on’ is a/an____.

a. noun
b. verb
c. adverb
d. preposition

12. Find the ‘after’ as an adjective.

a. They arrived son after.
b. They arrived after us
c. They arrived after we had left
d. The after effects of the drug are bad

13. Try to down him. Here ‘down’ is a/an____.

a. verb
b. noun
c. adjective
d. adverb

14. In which sentence ‘that’ is used as a conjunction?

a. That is what I want
b. What is that noise?
c. The evil that men do remains after them
d. He works hard that he may succeed.

15. Which ‘up’ in the following sentences is adverb? [Rajshahi University, F Unit (17-18)]

(a) Our system should be up by the noon.
(b) They live up in the mountains.
(c) The up train will come soon
(d) We had ups and downs of fortune.

16. Which of the following sentences uses the word ‘round’ adjective?

a. A square peg in a round hole
b. The boy played well in the first round
c. They rounded the temple silently
d. At last he came round to their belief

17. I saw a flock of sheep Here ‘sheep’ is a/an ----- noun.

a. common
b. collective
c. material
d. abstract

18. Seeing the baby the mother rose in her. Here ‘the mother’ is used as—

a. a common noun
b. an abstract noun
c. a proper noun
d. a collective

19. The noun form of ‘Lose’is ------.

(a) Losing
(b) Loss
(c) Lost
(d) Loose

20. ----amazing song haunted me for a long time.

(a) These
(b) Those
(c) Thus
(d) That

21. The ‘zero plural marker’ is used to -------. [Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd. Senior Officer -2017]

a. canon
b. mouse
c. physics
d. medium

22. All of the people at the AAME conference are------ .

a. Mathematic teachers
b. Mathematics teachers
c. Mathematics teacher
d. Mathematics’s teachers

23. Agenda is plural form of agendum. From which language the word ‘agendum’ has come in English.

a. Latin
b. Green
c. French d.
d. Italian

24. Unemployment compensation is money to support an unemployed person while he or she is looking for ----. [Barron’s TOEFL]

a. job
b. a job
c. works
d. a work

25. : ----- owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration. [Barron’s TOEFL]

a. That birds
b. A bird
c. The bird
d. Birds

26. The plurals of letters, numeral signs, symbols, abbreviations and individual words are formed by adding---- .

(a) s
(b) es
(c) ‘s
(d) all of these

27. What is the plural of the kind of ‘mouse’ that we use with a computer?

a. mouse
b. mice
c. mouses
d. either mice or mouses

28. Educating girls contributes to an increase of wealth through its impact on economic development. The underlined word is ----.

a) a verb
b) an adjective
c) a noun
d) an adverb

29. ----- fuel that is used today is a chemical of solar energy. [Barron’s Toefl]

a. Most of
b. The most
c. Most
d. Almost the

30. Wars ----- everybody and their destructive ---- last for generations. [Dhaka University (B) 15-16]

A. affects, effects
B. effect, affect
C. affect, effects
D. effect, effect